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With the future of US healthcare likely to rest on the next presidency, a new study from Psychology, Health & Medicine highlights just how complex the medical needs of many Americans now are.
As the authors of the study,...
The braiding of Majorana zero modes is shown. Credit: LI et. al
Majorana fermions were first proposed by the physicist Ettore Majorana in 1937. They are fermion particles that are also their own antiparticles. These fermions are vital to the...
A carefully constructed spherical nanoparticle coated in sialic acid lures the influenza A virus to its doom. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
To infect its victims, influenza A heads for the lungs, where it latches onto sialic acid on the surface...
The Scripps Research Institute team found that a key protein on hepatitis C virus, E2, is exceptionally flexible, helping to explain why scientists have had difficulty targeting it with a vaccine. (Illustration by Christina Corbaci and Leopold Kong.)
Researchers have...
The heart-on-a-chip is entirely 3-D printed with built-in sensors that measure the contractile strength of the tissue, providing scientists with new possibilities for studying the musculature of the heart Credit: Johan Lind, Disease Biophysics Group/Lori K. Sanders, Lewis Lab/Harvard...
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Two new papers published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes ) reveal the importance of both the amount and timing of physical activity in reducing the risk of developing type...
New guidelines announced by the American Academy of Pediatrics today say parents not only need to pay attention to the amount of time children spend on digital media -- but also how, when and where they use it.Credit: Flickr/Molly
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Findings could provide clues about other genes involved in autism
Scientists have linked mutations in a single gene to autism in people who have a rare tumor syndrome typically diagnosed in childhood.
The findings, in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1),...
A team led by Polina Golland’s group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has made a new algorithm for identifying organs in fetal MRI scans, which should make MRI monitoring much more useful. Pictured is a stock...
Donated human skin samples were used to produce first induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), then ultimately the healthy, donor-specific motor neurons shown here.Credit: UC San Diego Health
Although only 10 percent of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) cases are hereditary, a...
An abstract visualization of how variations in oxygen levels can change circadian rhythms through the protein HIF1α. Credit: Asher et al./Cell Metabolism 2016
We might not think of our circadian clock until we are jetlagged, but scientists continue to...
